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You can’t try to be authentic. You either are or you aren’t.

First images from Queen Sugar (2016) starring Rutina Wesley. All 13 episodes of the series are directed by women.

The thing that I’ve learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to come from negativity. Those are thoughts that, even if you were presenting an honest version of yourself, there’s just no point in sharing.

Xavier Dolan for Louis Vuitton’s pre-fall 2016 collection

Do you think the end of the world will come at nighttime? 

Sebastian teases a fan at WWCC Sacramento for not noticing him (© jedievans)

Jesse Williams accepts the Humanitarian Award onstage during the 2016 BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

It’s really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It’s really exciting.

Chris Zylka for Un-Titled Project.

When you won the Globe earlier this year, you seemed incredibly shocked—why? “I was doing this thing without any expectations, so when it comes, it’s quite fantastic, it’s incredible, it’s marvelous. When they said my name, I didn’t feel it rationally as such; I felt it more energetically throughout my body. I mean, the next day I was making pancakes, no problem, for my kids. But it is a huge deal for the life of the series Mozart in the Jungle. Nothing changes, but at the same time everything changes. It changes in terms of Rodrigo gets more life” x